How to format your references using the Frontiers in Hematology Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Hematology Oncology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Barbier, E. (2010). How is the Global Green New Deal going? Nature 464, 832–833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, S. J., and Giudice, L. C. (2013). Retrospective. Robert G. Edwards (1925-2013). Science 340, 825.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saikia, A., Frost, D. J., and Rubie, D. C. (2008). Splitting of the 520-kilometer seismic discontinuity and chemical heterogeneity in the mantle. Science 319, 1515–1518.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shahid, S., Kim, G., Johnson, N. R., Wafula, E., Wang, F., Coruh, C., et al. (2018). MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature 553, 82–85.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Ciana, P. (2011). New Frontiers in Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Husted, T. L. (2010). Clinician’s Manual on Intra-abdominal Infections., eds. H. Wacha and J. S. Solomkin. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.

A chapter in an edited book

Iacovides, I. (2011). “Water Management: Administration and Legislation,” in Water Resources Allocation: Policy and Socioeconomic Issues in Cyprus, ed. P. Koundouri (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 45–63.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Hematology Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016). How The Hidden Mathematics Of Living Cells Could Help Us Decipher The Brain. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-hidden-mathematics-living-cells-could-help-us-decipher-brain/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2004). Transatlantic Aviation: Effects of Easing Restrictions on U.S.-European Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Fountain, J. M. (2014). Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

McKINLEY, J., Mueller, B., and Rojas, R. (2015). Witness Says Clash Over Witchcraft Preceded a Teenager’s Fatal Beating. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Barbier, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barbier, 2010; Fisher and Giudice, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fisher and Giudice, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shahid et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Hematology Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology